Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine and HIV

Job overview

Are you passionate about delivering outstanding sexual health and HIV care while helping shape the future of integrated services?

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is looking for an enthusiastic Consultant in GUM and HIV to join our forward-thinking and supportive multidisciplinary team delivering services across North Kent.

This exciting substantive post offers the opportunity to work within a well-established integrated sexual health service providing Genitourinary Medicine, HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health care to a diverse population. The successful candidate will join a highly experienced team of consultants, speciality doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are committed to delivering innovative, accessible and patient-focused care.

Our service delivers more than 38,000 patient contacts each year and includes:

• Consultant-led HIV and GUM services
• Walk-in and booked integrated sexual health clinics
• HIV prevention and PrEP services
• Specialist contraception and complex SRH services
• Outreach and safeguarding programmes
• The Kent-wide online STI testing service (SH : UK)

We are particularly interested in candidates who are enthusiastic about clinical leadership, service development, teaching, training, clinical governance and quality improvement.

Come and join Team MTW and help us improve sexual health and wellbeing across the communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will:

• Provide expert clinical care for patients attending integrated sexual health and HIV services.
• Deliver consultant-led GUM, HIV and complex sexual health clinics.
• Manage a caseload of patients with complex sexual health and HIV needs.
• Support and provide clinical leadership to nurse-led services and multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead and develop the department's clinical audit programme and quality improvement activities.
• Contribute to service development and implementation of national sexual health priorities.
• Participate in clinical governance, risk management and service improvement initiatives.
• Provide safeguarding support and expertise for children, young people and vulnerable adults attending the service.
• Support undergraduate, postgraduate and multidisciplinary education and training.
• Participate in the supervision and development of trainee doctors, medical students and clinical colleagues.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across sexual health, HIV, gynaecology, obstetrics, dermatology, paediatrics, urology, pharmacy and primary care.
• Contribute to the strategic development of integrated sexual health services across Kent.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.

All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date has been agreed.

As part of your induction, you will be required to attend face-to-face training sessions and/or complete e-learning modules relevant to your role. If you have previously worked for another NHS organisation before joining Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), we can transfer eligible mandatory training records where appropriate, helping to avoid unnecessary duplication of learning.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.